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Re: Commodore Floppy On 130XE?

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Op woensdag 5 september 2001 20:28:40 UTC+2 schreef Fox-1:
> : track layouts and commands into the 4k ROM, you still only have 256 bytes of
> : RAM.
> 
> It's easy to put an additional 128bytes into a 1050.  (as they did in the
> US-Doubler).
> 
> : I thought there was someone from the Netherlands that programed a joystick
> : port to interface with a 1050. I would imagine if someone was really into
> : it, they could do the same thing for a 1541.
> 
> That should be Richard Vermeulen (aka S.O.D. from A.C.E. (Atari Club
> Eindhoven)) I guess.
> He made something to read data directly from the disk without using SIO
> commands.  The intension was to read data from a double-density disk (created
> with an US-doubler or Happy) on a 100% standard 1050 drive.  It even
> partitally worked!
> 
> He also wrote a thing to move the head of the 1050 using a joystick :-)
> 
> --
> 
> Grtx, Sysop Fox--1                http://www7.brinkster.com/atari
> 
>                    Remember what the dormouse said...

Hello, i am Richard Vermeulen. This is an ancient topic from 2001. Haha. Anyhow, i did indeed progam some things on a native 1050 diskdrive. Made an MS-DOS emulator program, but i forgot that i ever made a program that used a joystick to control the 1050. I did a lot of research to decode the MS-DOS protocol, to be read on a native 1050. And made software to exchange data between Atari 8bit and MS-dos machines. without using any hardware add-ons like us-doubler/Happy or speedy cards.

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